Featured recommended cafes in Ishigaki Island! From Instagram-worthy stores to popular restaurants with a tropical atmosphere!

 

Introducing recommended cafes on Ishigaki Island.

A great way to enhance the tropical resort atmosphere is to visit cafes while sightseeing.

There are many cafes that you should visit when you visit Ishigaki Island, such as stores popular for their location and SNS-worthy menus, and stores where you can have unique experiences.

In this issue, we will introduce the charm of Ishigaki Island's cafes and our recommendations.

Please refer to this page when you travel to Ishigaki Island.

 

Attraction of cafes you can enjoy in Ishigaki Island

What kind of attractions are there in the cafes you can enjoy on Ishigaki Island?

Many people want to choose a café for their trip that has an attraction that makes them want to use it because it is here.

Here we introduce the charm of Ishigaki Island's cafes.

Please use this as a guide in planning your trip, as it will help you choose the right café.

 

Great view! You can feel like in the tropics!

Ishigaki Island boasts the best scenery with a tropical feel.

You will enjoy the exotic atmosphere of the place surrounded by tropical plants and cafes with views of the beach and the horizon.

At this café, where you can enjoy a spectacular sunset view, you will surely be able to relax from your daily fatigue just by watching the sun set while spending some quiet time.

 

instagrammable image (e.g. of a movie)

Another attraction of Ishigaki Island's cafes is that there are many Instagram-worthy spots.

Did you know that Ishigaki Island-related hashtags have been the top most popular posts about Ishigaki Island cafes?

Popular postings include cafes that are popular for their locations and menus that make you want to take a picture of them, making you feel like you are on a trip just by looking at the photos.

If you incorporate the view and the café menu into your composition, you can take photos that look like popular Instagram posts.

Postings that make social networking viewers feel like they are on a trip are popular, so let's take lots of pictures at Ishigaki Island cafes.

 

Can be used as a break from sightseeing.

Ishigaki Island, where you can feel the summer sun, can be more tiring for sightseeing than you might think.

If you feel a little tired from sightseeing, stop by a café where you can order a thirst-quenching or energy-restoring menu.

If you choose a menu that is unique to Ishigaki Island or a menu that allows you to enjoy the tropics, the café will become a great tourist attraction.

In addition, many people tend to overload their schedules when traveling to Ishigaki Island.

During the trip planning stage, make sure to plan your trip with plenty of time to spare between sightseeing stops at cafes.

It is also recommended to choose a café as an alternative tourist destination in case of a sudden squall.

 

10 popular cafes in Ishigaki Island

Here is a selection of popular cafes on Ishigaki Island to help you plan your trip.

We will introduce basic information about the cafes and their popular menus and other features, so please find a café you would like to visit in Ishigaki Island.

 

Natural Garden Cafe PUFFPUFF (Puka Puka)

Puka Puka is a popular cafe with a location overlooking Ishigaki Island.

There are 31 terrace and table seats and 10 counter seats.

Seats with a view of the ocean are popular, but during peak season, reservations can be made for 8 or more people.

In addition to the café, you can enjoy BBQ (reservations are possible from 2 people), and we recommend having BBQ while enjoying the view of the ocean.

 

Features of the restaurant and popular menu

The restaurant features a lovely white building that boasts an ocean view and terrace seating.

The cobalt blue sea stretching out before your eyes offers a spectacular view no matter what time of day you visit.

The restaurant has a resort-like atmosphere and is known for its cleanliness and comfort.

On the meal menu, the Ishigaki Island Misaki Beef Roast Beef Bowl, Taco Rice, and Tandoori Chicken, limited to 10 servings, have become popular.

In addition to food, the sweets menu is also popular, and the Tropical Parfait and Mango Parfait are the perfect tropical resort menu items.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 10:30 - 21:00

Closed: None

Address: 193-1 Maesato, Ishigakijima, Okinawa, Japan

Wi-Fi Free Wi-Fi available

Charging Please inquire.

 

Seven Colors Ishigakijima

Seven Colors is a restaurant in the Hotel Seven Colors, where you can enjoy a cafe and lunch.

With locally produced and consumed Ishigaki Island cuisine and spectacular oceanfront views, the restaurant has gained a reputation for its gastronomic delights and spectacular views.

There are terrace seats and seats on the observation deck, so if available, enjoy the cafe there.

This café is recommended for those who are looking for a high quality café, as the restaurant is particular not only about the food but also about the food containers.

 

Features of the restaurant and popular menu

With the beach right in front of you, Seven Colors is the place to experience an upscale tropical resort.

Lunch prices range from 1,500 yen to 2,000 yen, but the gorgeous dishes are well worth it.

Popular meal menu items include Misaki Beef Taco Rice, Garlic Shrimp Plate, and Yaeyama Soba Noodles.

For sweets, the berry waffle plate and tropical parfait are popular, and there are also several ice cream choices.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 11:00-14:00

Please contact the store directly for regular holidays.

Address: 226-523 Hirakubo, Ishigaki City, Okinawa, Japan

Wi-Fi Free Wi-Fi available

Charging Yes

 

Island Vegetable Cafe Rihalou Beach

Rihalou Beach, a café where you can enjoy island vegetables, is a popular seaside house café.

The restaurant has a Hawaiian atmosphere with a panoramic view of the ocean, allowing you to spend a relaxing time.

This café is recommended for those who want to enjoy the resort, as it is well known for its delicious café menu while surrounded by tropical plants.

 

Features of the restaurant and popular menu

It opens at 8:00 a.m., so many people visit for breakfast.

You can enjoy dishes and smoothies made with local vegetables, so you can enjoy a menu that is uniquely Ishigaki Island.

The meal menu is known for its delicious island vegetable dishes such as healthy taco rice with island vegetables and island tofu, and island vegetable bagna caudauda.

For sweets, the hearty mango waffles and special waffles that can be eaten in the morning are popular.

The counter is also filled with delicious-looking baked goods, which you can take back to your hotel to eat.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 8:00 - 21:30

Closed: None

Address: 192-2 Maesato, Ishigakijima City, Okinawa, Japan

Wi-Fi Free Wi-Fi available

Charging Yes

 

Hikarirakuen

Kourakuen is a popular fruit parlor cafe.

The café sells juices and smoothies made from home-grown fruit, which can be enjoyed in the great outdoors that stretches behind the store.

If you are in the mood for a rich, fresh juice, this is the café for you.

 

Features of the restaurant and popular menu

The cafe is popular for its sweets using home-grown guava as the main ingredient, as well as various tropical fruits.

Not only juices and smoothies, but also frappes made with fruit syrups that look great on SNS are popular.

When you want to cool down your body after a long day of sightseeing in Ishigaki Island, take a rest at this cafe where you can enjoy cool sweets.

Other delicious muffins are popular, and many people buy them as souvenirs or as snacks when they are hungry.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 10:00-17:00

Closed on Thursdays and Sundays

Address: 1535-16, Aza-Heitoku, Ishigakijima City, Okinawa, Japan

Wi-Fi None

Charging None

 

Mill Mill Honpo

Mill Mill Honpo is a café where you can enjoy a wide variety of gelato and excellent hamburgers made from local beef.

It is also a casual café located on a hill overlooking Nagura Bay with a spectacular view of the seven Yaeyama mountains.

Many people say that Mill Mill Honpo is their favorite cafe in Ishigaki Island because of its rich gelato and spectacular view.

In addition to the main store, gelato is also sold at the airport on Ishigaki Island, so it can be said to be readily available.

 

Features of the restaurant and popular menu

The café's menu features fresh milk and meat from cows raised on the company's own ranch on Ishigaki Island, and you can enjoy the spectacular view.

A popular meal menu item is the cheeseburger, a juicy, thick patty.

As for sweets, gelato and shakes are popular, and there are limited time only flavors and flavors unique to Ishigaki Island, so be sure to try them when you find them.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 10:00-18:30

Closed: None

Address: 1583-65 Shinkawa, Ishigakijima, Okinawa, Japan

Wi-Fi None

Charging None

 

Cafe Sunkiss

Cafe Sunkiss is located in Yamahara village, a community of restaurants and cafes near Yonehara Beach, a popular beach in Ishigaki Island.

The café has a large balcony with a view of the beautiful emerald green sea, and the building is open to the public.

Both the lunch and sweets menus are stylish, making this café perfect for the fashion-conscious.

 

Features of the restaurant and popular menu

The view from the balcony is not only of the beautiful ocean, but also of the magnificent mountains.

Popular meal options include chicken soup curry and omelette taco rice, and these dishes are made with herbs grown in the garden.

For sweets, the hearty Bubble Waffle is popular.

Freshly baked waffles are served with ice cream and toppings, and toppings such as Okinawan cream cheese and chinsuko are very popular.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 11:00 to sunset

Closed on Tuesdays

Address: 1216-355 Kabira, Ishigakijima, Okinawa, Japan

Wi-Fi Free Wi-Fi available

Charging None

 

Sea Cafe & Kitchen St.ELMO

St. Elmo is a cafe open only from May to October.

It is open only during the high season in summer, so you need to be careful when you go there, but it has become famous as a café where you can enjoy a spectacular view over Taketomi Island.

In addition, the healthy café menu with plenty of ingredients from Ishigaki Island is also popular, so we recommend this café for health-conscious people.

 

Features of the restaurant and popular menu

The restaurant and terrace are designed in the image of a ship, and the terrace in particular is characterized by a design that makes you feel as if you are relaxing on a ship.

Popular meal options include squid smelt paella and a smoothie bowl with bitter gourd and island tofu, allowing you to enjoy the delicious ingredients of Ishigaki Island.

For sweets, fruit-filled panna cotta and homemade purple sweet potato cheesecake are popular.

If you want to enjoy a spectacular view and a nutritious meal, this café is the place to go.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 11:00 - 21:00

Closed on Wednesdays

Address: 1629-3 Shinkawa, Ishigakijima, Okinawa, Japan

Wi-Fi Free Wi-Fi available

Charging None

 

Kabira Farm

Kabira Farm is a well-known company specializing in the production of processed passion fruit products.

There is a processing facility and a store cum parlor where you can enjoy fresh fruit juices.

Processed products made with a unique method that uses no additives other than sugar are very popular and can be tasted at souvenir shops and restaurants on Ishigaki Island.

 

Features of the restaurant and popular menu

The restaurant is a pension-style house, where you can enjoy delicious juices on a deck overlooking the ocean.

The gardens around the store are well maintained, and visitors can also observe plants and natural monuments and other living creatures in the sample gardens of tropical water lilies, more than 100 varieties of plumeria flowers, and passion flowers that bloom gorgeously in five ponds (some are under maintenance).

A mangrove forest is also located in the park, making it a place where you can enjoy the café while enjoying the nature of Ishigaki Island.

Popular menu items are passion fruit juice and mango juice.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 10:00-18:00

Closed on weekends and holidays

Address: 1291-63 Kawahira, Ishigakijima, Okinawa, Japan

Wi-Fi None

Charging None

 

main shop of the Edo period where the shogun would work and spend his daily life

Located in the Ishigaki Island's remote island terminal is Shichinin Honpo.

This place has the atmosphere of a yorozuya, where you can buy bento lunches and Okinawan souvenirs.

It is open early in the morning, and many people who travel to Ishigaki Island have probably used it before going sightseeing, as it is often visited before going sightseeing.

The café menu that can be ordered here is shakes.

 

Features of the restaurant and popular menu

The interior of the Shichinin Honpo is like a storefront, crammed with boxed lunches and souvenirs.

The shakes available here are "Mariya Shake" and are made by Mariya Dairy.

The most popular flavor is plain with free toppings.

S, M, and G sizes are available, and the "Terramariya," which combines a shake and soft serve ice cream, is a hearty sweet treat.

If you have a confident stomach, try Terramariya.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 6:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Closed: None

Address: 1 Misaki-cho, Ishigakijima City, Okinawa Prefecture (Euglena Ishigaki Port Terminal)

Wi-Fi None

Charging None

 

carib cafe

Located in the center of "Yamahara Cafe Street" in Kabira, Ishigaki Island, carib cafe is a cafe where you can enjoy a view of the ocean.

Please note that terrace seating is only available for those who order a drink and dessert, but you can enjoy the spectacular view, so please enjoy your café time from the terrace.

It is also a popular restaurant for TV and magazine interviews, so be sure to allow plenty of time for your visit.

 

Features of the restaurant and popular menu

Those who want to enjoy a well-established café surrounded by nature should visit CARIB CAFE.

The café is located on a hill so it overlooks the beautiful ocean.

Popular meal options include hearty lunch plates and taco rice.

For dessert, brown sugar sundaes are popular as a sweet treat to relieve travel fatigue.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 11:00-15:00

Closed: None

Address: 1216-113 Kabira, Ishigaki City, Okinawa, Japan

Wi-Fi Free Wi-Fi available

Charging None

 

Is there a Starbucks on Ishigaki Island?

Starbucks (Starbucks Cafe) is a Seattle-based coffee chain with more than 1,300 cafes nationwide.

Ishigaki Island also has a Starbucks, which can be enjoyed in the center of Ishigaki Airport.

It is popular as the southernmost and westernmost Starbucks in Japan, and many people use it instead of lounges at Ishigaki Airport, which has no lounge.

Starbucks itself does not have seating, but you can use the chair seats in the airport or in the food court.

You can purchase Starbucks cards and stainless steel mugs that are only available in Okinawa, so you may want to buy one for yourself as a souvenir or as a reminder of your trip.

 

Why Starbucks is so popular

It can be said that Starbucks is popular because of the security of being able to order their usual drink menu, charge their batteries, and use free Wi-Fi even when traveling.

Located in the airport, the café can be used when checking in for flights and is easily accessible to tourists on Ishigaki Island.

Starbucks does not have a food menu, but there is a food court nearby, so if you are hungry, you can use that.

 

Basic Information

Business hours: 7:00 - 20:00

Closed: None

Address: 1960-104-1 Shiraho, Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture (inside Ishigakijima Airport)

WIFI available

Charging Yes

 

summary

The cafes on Ishigaki Island have various characteristics, and all of them have their own charms that make you want to visit.

If you are planning to stop by a café while sightseeing, you will be able to enjoy sightseeing more efficiently if you look for a store near a sightseeing spot.

It is recommended to tour around Ishigaki Island while visiting cafes, so you will definitely have a wonderful trip to Ishigaki Island by visiting various cafes.

Please refer to this article when looking for cafes on Ishigaki Island.